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Promising landscape-generation tool now costs $149 for 8K terrain export, or $199 for unlimited res.

Monday, March 18th, 2019

Big free update to the sculpting software adds new NPR render system and alpha modelling toolkit.

Wednesday, March 6th, 2019

Next-gen material creation tool is now available to download for free during its beta. Will become a $99 perpetual licence on final release.

Wednesday, January 30th, 2019

We assess the potential impact of the buyout on the licensing and development of key Allegorithmic software like Substance Painter.

Thursday, January 24th, 2019

Long-awaited major update to the GPU renderer adds the Brigade path tracing engine, AI denoising, light linking, new ubermaterial.

Thursday, November 22nd, 2018

Smart roto tool gets new edition with the Academy Award-winning planar tracker integrated into it.

Tuesday, July 31st, 2018

Simulate large scenes up to 20x faster with the Maya crowd tool's new intelligent instancing system. Redshift support also now added.

Friday, June 23rd, 2017

3D painting package gets option to edit paint already committed to a model, plus new 'individual subscription' licensing system.

Friday, May 26th, 2017

Firm reverses its policy on acquiring the renderer from Solid Angle last April, moves to rental-only pricing.

Tuesday, May 9th, 2017

Big annual releases of Substance Designer and Painter replaced with continuous updates, but you can still own outright.

Monday, May 8th, 2017

Cost of maintaining a perpetual licence of Max or Maya to rise 38% by 2019, phased in year by year.

Tuesday, March 7th, 2017

Rent licences of the renderfarm manager on the fly; pay per minute at a rate equivalent to $0.10/hour.

Wednesday, July 13th, 2016

Updated: Unity Plus subscribers get option to turn off the splash screen; users of the free Personal edition can customise it.

Friday, June 17th, 2016